Suggestion: Fortified Nirncrux drop mechanisms

Gyudan

The current situation: Nirn gems only drop from harvesting crafting nodes in Upper Craglorn. Given how rare the drops are, dozens of farmers spend hours running from one node to the next, harvesting everything. A common issue is people fighting over crafting nodes protected my mobs: player A kills the mobs, player B "steals" the node ... so much for being in the same faction.
This has turned peaceful harvesting (walking around, looking at the beautiful world design while harvesting a few materials here and there) into some sick competition.

TLDR: people harvesting crafting nodes in upper Craglorn are being d*cks to each other.

My suggestion: add nirn gems as possible drops from clearing the Iron Orc Nirncrux Mines with a very low droprate but still viable enough as an alternative to harvesting. I'd much rather see zergs farming those mines than people running around in Upper Craglorn like madmen. With 5 mines in the area, the amount of players involved should be much lower than at the beginning of the Anomalies Farm back when Craglorn was released.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌ @ZOS_PierreL and other ZOS people, I'd like to hear back from you regarding this issue. I can't believe you intended to ruin the game's spirit when you designed nirnhoned.
Congrats on update 4 though. New content is great and this new trait is a nice challenge for all crafters.

dharbert

Gyudan wrote: »

TLDR: people harvesting crafting nodes in every zone are being d*cks to each other.

There, fixed it for ya. It's always been this way, and not just in Craglorn.

Seriously though, I'm glad players are breaking their necks trying to find a single scrap of gemstone in Upper Craglorn. That leaves me to harvest stack after stack after stack of resources in the rest of Craglorn while they fight over nodes.

Willard

I have gone 3 weeks with out a single Fortified Nirncrux (Armor) or Potent Nirncrux (Weapon). I spend at least 45-60 min each day running upper Craglorn farming matts....and while I do get a lot of crafting materials--not one Nirn! Is it just me being unlucky with the RNG or what? I am on the PS4.

Taleof2Cities

Thanks for the necro thread.

Just FYI, nirn drops in lower Craglorn now ... so you can try those nodes if there are other players in Upper Craglorn (or other players not yet aware of the change).

In addition, nirn has always dropped very rarely on animal mobs (welwa, etc.) both outdoors and in Craglorn regular dungeons.

Also, don't forget the tier 8-9 crafting writ surveys which will also rarely drop nirn in the survey nodes.

To be honest, my Crag node farming runs back in the day were 2-3 hours per session ... so give it a try if that's palatable enough and not too long. An hour is not a long enough window in my opinion.

Most importantly, good luck and may RNGJesus be with you.